IGZones - Multiplayer for MM

[DRitual63]

Most of you may have seen it at MM2Central, however, I would post here for attention

Since the closing of the MSN Gaming Zone in Mid-2006, IGZones (International Gaming Zones) has become the leading unprecedented replacement in multiplayer gaming clients. Offering games in several different and exciting genres such as; Age of Empires I, Age of Empires: Rise of Rome, Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, Midtown Madness (I and II), Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Rogue Spear and Rainbow Six. Our client also offers features you won't find anywhere else, such as: Instant Messaging, AntiCheat (to protect gamers from unfair play), a complete rating system with live scores, 24/7 Live Technical Support, and possibly the closest recreation of the MSN Gaming Zone chat environment you will find on the internet today. All this combined with the passion and dedication from developers who have played these games for years, and you have one of the best gaming clients around.

IGZones is launched and is supporting MM1 & MM2!

These are the supported games (for now hopefully):

-The Conquerors
-Age of Empires
-Age of Kings
-Rise of Rome
-Midtown Madness 2 (SWEET!)
-Midtown Madness (AWESOME!)
-Rainbow Six
-Clone Campaigns
-Rogue Spear
-Galactic Battlegrounds

However, to play these games you need to have an account, so you can log in to IGZones and play multiplayer.

Currently this article displays the features of the latest Alpha v0.033 program. If there is a newer version out this should be updated. Click Screenshots for a nice tour of the IGZones program!
IGZones now supports Rogue Spear and Rainbow Six.

Feature Highlights:
-IGZ Friends (Conversation Style Messaging)
-Initial Anti-Cheat System (This is an anti-cheat system designed to prevent all cheats, and 1.0F and 2.0F will soon follow)
-Rating System (Similar MSN Zone, with proper Incomplete detection and no failed recordings)
-Rated Games Option in Game Room (No Rated/Non-Rated Lobbies)*
-~10 Second Game Launch**
-Clan Support (Clan Tags, Clan Chat)
-Table View & List View
-Fully Skin-able Layout
-Multiple Chat Channels (All, Lobby, Clan, System)
-Multiple Lobbies and Auto-Joining
-Logging in via program rather than website
-Floating Game Rooms
-Emotes (Customizable)

* - Allows you to set the option to pick which game is rated and not rated.
** - This timing is approximate and can vary, but it is the fast launching zone for AoE Series games.

Other Features:
-Ping icons for each player.
-Passworded games
-Clan-Only games.
-Rated Game Option for each game.
-Anti-Spam feature, no more flooding "GAME 10 GAME 10...."
-Quick Join
-Quick Host
-Go To Game (pick the number of your game)
-Conversation-Style Instant Messages.
-IGZ Friends Groups, customize groups according to your friends/clan.
-IGZ Friends, alert that friend has come online.
-IGZ Friends statuses, such as 'away' and 'do not disturb'.
-Hover over each player in list to see information such as clan, ratings, status, what game room they are waiting or playing in, and what country they are from.
-Double click players to send instant message in conversation style.
-Ctrl+double click to join a player's game.
-Click info next to game room Host/Join buttons to see information about the game without being inside the game.
-Auto Login for easy logging in.
-Window flashing/alerting for all sorts of messages.
-Sounds for all sorts of different operations.
-IGZones remembers the size of your lobbies.
-Ignore a user feature.
-Launch profile via right click on player names.
-/exit exits the program as well.
-/restart restarts the program automatically.
-Smiley browser in each chat window.
-Smiley hotkeys.
-New lobbies added ( Latin Chat, Brazil Chat, T

[thekingoftown]

Sweet, i always wanted to play AoE and Galactic Battlegrounds multiplayer. Sweet.

[DjDecibel]

Thanks for the news.. i hope the mm2 online community will be back

[thekingoftown]

Dude, i need help. What do i do, do i launch mm2? How do you do it.
PS, this is the first online thing like this I

[DRitual63]

Just register an account.
Next thing you download is the IGZones Client (0.78 or 0.77, because it supports MM2) and install it.

Launch the program...
Next you login to the IGZones with the program, and wait for the list of lobbies to come up. (Don't forget to untick Auto Hide Launcher, cause it will get you disconnected.)

When a list of lobbies is loaded, scroll down to the game. (If your looking for MM2, it is Midtown Madness 2.)

Now you can just wait there for some people to host the games or you host and wait for them to come and play! (Mostly MM2 players likes to play C&R.)

[thekingoftown]

Thanks, but now i have a new problem. When i try to join a game it starts mm2, then it go's in to the main menu. What then?

[Earl]

Thanks, but now i have a new problem. When i try to join a game it starts mm2, then it go's in to the main menu. What then?

I have same problem.

[CaNeNo1]

i done all with IGZ , but when i go start game it calls " u must instal the game first " lol i have the game ! what to do ? please help me Thx

[dageek]

check if game is installed in correct location

if that doesnt work, re install mm2 (back up addons first)

[CharlieSteal]

Yea it seems igzones.com is broken i hope its temporary, i just made an account 10 minutes ago (since i jsut recently remembered i had mm2) and now the site wont load wats wrong?

Edit: nevermind after trying on IE (internet explorer it works).